Spielberg on 'Ready Player One' and the future: 'Virtual reality will be a super drug'

The director behind the upcoming film adaptation of Ready Player One is making some bleak predictions about what lies in store for us in the decades to come. 

While the rest of us are still waiting for Steven Spielberg's vision of creepy AI children to come true, the legendary director has moved on to imagining how other real-world technologies will affect society. "Virtual reality will be a super drug," he said in a new video promoting Ready Player One, which is set to release in the U.S. on March 30.

Based on Ernest Cline's beloved novel, Ready Player One takes place in a dystopian future where people are hooked on digital fantasies. Spielberg sets the scene for how this technological takeover happens, explaining that "the fabric of our economy is crumbling. It's a good time to escape." Read more...